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unusual facts about Ness, Lewis


Hilda Chaulk Murray

In 1960, she married Murdo Murray, a recent Scottish immigrant originally from Ness on the Isle of Lewis.


Alanis Obomsawin

Obomsawin is the subject of the first-ever book on Native filmmakers, Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker, by Randolph Lewis, published in 2006 by the University of Nebraska Press.

Aripuana

It is named for Lewis B. Cullman and Dorothy Cullman, philanthropists and supporters of the New York Botanical Garden.

Benjamin Pierce Cheney, Jr.

She was born at Hamilton, Ontario, on May 3, 1868, the daughter of Thomas J. Lewis, a tobacco manufacturer, and Elizabeth (Arthur) Lewis.

Boddam, Aberdeenshire

The area around the headland of Buchan Ness was for many centuries the point from which trading and whaling voyages departed across open ocean, bound for Archangel, Greenland and Spitsbergen amongst other destinations.

Butch Lewis

Lewis died of a massive heart attack at his home in Bethany Beach, Delaware.

Cantre'r Gwaelod

Lewis takes the view that maps by the cartographer Ptolemy marked the coastline of Cardigan Bay in the same location as it appears in modern times, suggesting that the date of the flood occurred before the second century AD.

Carter-Lewis and the Southerners

Carter and Lewis also composed songs for a number of other artists, including Brenda Lee and P.J. Proby.

Cinderfella

Lewis agreed and wrote, produced, and directed The Bellboy in four weeks in February 1960 while he was performing at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.

CLÀR

, a collection of short stories by Duncan Gillies (Donnchadh MacGillIosa) from London via Ness on the Island of Lewis was shortlisted for the main award 2013 Book of the Year.

Courage of the West

Lewis was told that the Screen Actors Guild did not have jurisdiction at this distance from Los Angeles, although its members would have to be paid the standard rates agreed with the Guild.

Cyril Wool-Lewis

From 1947 to 1952, Wool-Lewis was Commissioner of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

East Ness

Ness Hall in East Ness has a large walled garden which has been restored by Cynthia Murray Wells and subsequently Mary Murray Wells assisted by Harriette Murray Wells (daughter of John Skeffington, 14th Viscount Massereene).

Eisteddfod

The 2011 West Coast Eisteddfod: Welsh Festival of Arts in Los Angeles was sponsored by the Meriwether Lewis Memorial Eisteddfod Foundation in association with AmeriCymru, Welsh American social network, and A Raven Above Press, Welsh-American owned and operated small press.

Elfed Lewys

His father was the Reverend Morley Lewis, and his grandfather on his father's side was John Lewis, a tailor in Blaenycoed who became a singer of note, a precentor and adjudicator of local eisteddfodau and choir conductor.

Elmore James

He also influenced many rock guitarists such as The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones (Keith Richards wrote in his book that at the time he met Brian Jones, Brian called himself Elmo Lewis, and that he wanted to be Elmore James), Canned Heat's Alan Wilson and in particular Fleetwood Mac's Jeremy Spencer.

Everything You See

The Loch Ness concert, entitled Beat the Drum after the chorus to the song "Pride of the Summer", was released on DVD and CD as Year of the Flood in 2008.

Fort DeRussy Military Reservation

Rene and his brother Lewis were both graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Fred Allegrezza

Most recently Fred, along with business partners Cliff Lewis and Tim Court founded Venture 3 Systems to develop an easy to use, touchscreen computer for seniors called Telikin.

FUT4

It catalyzes the synthesis of the non-sialylated antigen, Lewis x (CD15).

General Precision Equipment

Librascope, founded in 1937 by Lewis W. Imm to improve aircraft load balancing, was acquired by General Precision, Inc. in 1941, and went on to become a computer manufacturer.

Howard Lew Lewis

His father Oswald Tenby-Lewis was awarded membership of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) by Queen Elizabeth II for his personal services to the royal family.

Ice People

Ice People brings Anne Aghion and her crew to Antarctica where they spent four months following the lives of North Dakota State University geologist professors Allan Ashworth and Adam Lewis, as well as the McMurdo Station staff over four months.

Janet Lewis

Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she was a member of a literary circle that included Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and her future husband Yvor Winters.

Jeffrey Cuthbert

He was a governor of the Lewis School, Pengam, and served as Principal of a part-time Adult Education Centre at Aberbargoed.

Jnan Chandra Ghosh

He researched problems of photo-chemistry and strong electrolytes in the University College which earned appreciation from leaders of science like Walter Nernst, Max Planck, William Bragg and G. N. Lewis and was cited in Walter Nernst's reputed book "Theoretical Chemistry" (1921) and Lewis and Randall's book "Thermodynamics".

John Panton

Panton's daughter, Catherine Panton-Lewis, is a professional golfer and was a founding member of the Ladies European Tour.

Johnny Owens

Brown Brigade's debut studio album Into the Mouth of Badd(d)ness was released September 18, 2007 and received mostly positive reviews, although released only in Canada and Japan.

Jonathan Lewis

Johnny Lewis (Jonathan Lewis, born 1983 - died 2012), American actor

Larry Gates

He played the role of Lewis from 1983 to 1996 and received the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor at the 1985 awards.

Lezlie Deane

In the 1990s she was recruited by producers Peter Rafelson and Michael Lewis to join the dance-pop group Fem2fem, and toured Europe and North America as an opening act for Nine Inch Nails (NIN) and Marilyn Manson.

Mabel Terry–Lewis

Her film appearances include Love Maggy (1921), Shirley (1922), Caste (1930), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), The Third Clue (1934), Dishonour Bright (1936), The Squeaker (1937), Jamaica Inn (1939), The Adventures of Tartu (1943) and They Came to a City (1945).

Mahican

Michael Mann directed 1992 adaptation, which starred Daniel Day-Lewis as a Mohican-adopted white man.

Myron Cohen

During the 1950s, when there were numerous nightclub showroom venues throughout the nation, he was one of the top headliners, along with others, such as Sophie Tucker, Ted Lewis, Adam Lebensfeld, Jimmy Durante, and Joe E. Lewis, among others.

New Zealand State Highway 65

It is 71 km long and runs south to north down the Maruia river valley from SH 7 at Springs Junction, 15 km west of the main divide at the Lewis Pass, to SH 6 in the Buller Gorge, 11 km west of Murchison.

Ramandu's Daughter

Lewis never named her in the books, but she is called Lilliandil in the 2010 film version.

Rashard Lewis

In 2001, Lewis was selected to play for the USA in the Goodwill Games, in which they won the gold medal.

Sidney Lawton Smith

Collections of bookplates designed, etched, and engraved by Sidney Lawton Smith are held in the Lewis Stark Bookplate Collection at the University of New Hampshire, and the William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection at the University of Delaware.

Sinan Savaskan

Sinan Savaskan was the Music Director and Composer for Oedipus Rex, University of Cambridge’s triennial production performed entirely in classical Greek at Performances at Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 11–16 October 2004; featuring a distinguished production team including Director Annie Castledine and Royal National Theatre’s Designer Stephen Brimson-Lewis.

Syerston

Some sixty years later in 1775 Lord George Sutton, a son of the third Duke of Rutland, sold Syerston to Lewis Disney Ffytche of Flintham.

The Cool Kids

Their song "A Little Bit Cooler" was used in a "Most Valuable Puppets" commercial from Nike with LeBron James and Kobe Bryant entitled "Mrs. Lewis".

The Queen of Drum

The Queen of Drum is a narrative poem by C.S. Lewis published by J.M. Dent in 1969, post-humously by Lewis' trustee and literary adviser Walter Hooper.

The Sad Sack

It was re-released in 1962 as a double feature with another Jerry Lewis vehicle, The Delicate Delinquent, they being the first two movies Lewis made without Dean Martin.

The Silver Chair

Mark Gordon and Douglas Gresham along with Vincent Sieber, the Los Angeles based director of The C.S. Lewis Company, will serve as producers and work with The Mark Gordon Company on developing the script.

The Silver Chair is dedicated to Nicholas Hardie, the son of Colin Hardie, a member of the Inklings with Lewis.

The Uh-Oh! Show

A more complete version of the film was screened at the Cinema Wasteland movie convention in Strongsville, Ohio in October 2010, with Mr. Lewis in attendance.

Tigilau Ness

In 2008, Ness featured with his son Che Fu in the documentary Children of the Revolution about the children of political activists in New Zealand which also included Māori activist Tame Iti, Māori Party Member of Parliament Hone Harawira, Green Party Member of Parliament Sue Bradford and anti-apartheid leader John Minto.

W. Fred Turner

The story behind this case was told in Anthony Lewis's 1964 book Gideon's Trumpet.

William L. Carpenter

William Lewis Carpenter, born January 13, 1844 at Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, New York, died July 10, 1898 at Madison Barracks, Jefferson County, New York.

Yaghan people

In 1871, Anglican missionary and linguist Thomas Bridges and George Lewis established a mission at Tierra del Fuego; he and his wife raised their family there.


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